About the Authors

Geoffrey M. Attardo

geoffrey.attardo@yale.edu

Affiliation Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Joshua B. Benoit

Affiliation Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Veronika Michalkova

Affiliations Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

Kevin R. Patrick

Affiliation Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Tyler B. Krause

Affiliation Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Serap Aksoy

Affiliation Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GMA JBB SA. Performed the experiments: GMA JBB VM KRP TBK. Analyzed the data: GMA JBB VM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SA. Wrote the paper: GMA SA.